Cucujiformia
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| Image:Asian multicolored lady beetle.jpg Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis | ||||||||||||
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Cucujiformia is an infraorder of Polyphagan beetles, representing the vast majority of plant eating beetles.
The infraorder contains six superfamilies:
- Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)
- Cleroidea (checkered beetles, bark-gnawing beetles and soft winged flower beetles)
- Cucujoidea (31 families that includes ladybirds, fungus beetles and bark beetles)
- Tenebrionoidea (also Heteromera) (30 families including blister beetles and ant-like beetles)
- Chrysomeloidea (4 families including Longhorn beetles & leaf beetles)
- Curculionoidea (8 families primarliy consisting of weevils and also including snout beetles)
